Business briefs: May 16. The Air Force is considering adding "significant" new funding to its EELV program, Space News... [spacetoday.net]

EELV is not the way to lower the cost of getting into space. Additionally, the program's outline calls for a %25 reduction in the cost of getting into space. WRONG. We need the cost to get down by a factor of at least %75 in order to make launches commercially viable. Not for launching more satellites, but for getting people up there. Tourism is the surest way to reduce the costs of getting anywhere. While it currently costs millions to get one person up, tourism will drive the cost down, especially when combined with vehicles that are built for carrying large groups of people, instead of cargo plus a very small crew.

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